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Sunday Sketches!
The fall and Thanksgiving season wraps up apace. Hope all here in US had a jolly THanksgiving break? I know those in Canada had it earlier than that, a month or so!
I had a good time with family, etc. They are moving up here and we have spent time doing the Thanksgiving thing, but also the visiting thing. Overall, nice to have them close by again. Completed these drawings there, once again affiliated with my drawing project.
I did have something hysterical happen today though... a local innkeeper whom we have some affection for as being the fellow whose place we got married at, was someone I visited a few days before the holiday, since we go sell art in the town where he lives.
Just to make conversation (as so many do this time of year) I asked if he/they had any THanksgiving plans. Now, since i already had THanksgiving plans and since I didn't particularly feel OWED anything by this individual, I am pretty certain I asked with a straight face. But I got a weird shifty eyed "no, nothing special, nothing much happening." I was surprised since it seemed a bit odd & sad. "Really? wow, OK. Am surprised, no guests, anything etc" since I can still remember not many years ago spending some money to have a Thanksgiving meal at this person's inn, thus I know it's nothing for which there is no antecedent, both in terms of expectation or curiosity. But no, apparently not this year.
And then today at our art booth we had a conversation with someone who works at this inn - someone we've also known for some years - and he started out saying "how was your Thanksgiving, etc" and we "oh, you know, with my parents and y'all?"
And then he states that they all, at this Inn, had a potluck, a big nice THanksgiving potluck, with 18 or 19 people, most of whom we know and are either friendly with or at least civil with (sometimes it's more than enough LOL)
So I am thinking all of this is pretty funny because it can only mean one of 3 things:
1) I came across as weirdly desperate, or in general come across as weirdly desperate for free dinners in this community - scratch that, not free, it was a potluck - and thus have to wildly edit my entire conversational approach - God forbid, for instance, random men to whom I ask the time really end up thinking I am wanting to go to bed with them
2) everyone hates the food we cook - maybe the yummy spongy cornbread we make is nowhere near as yummy or spongy as we think it is.
3) a corollary to #1, maybe poor Elmer thinks we are too woebegone to have something to actually DO on Thanksgiving, as in, something that we might actually prefer doing than, say, hanging out in the back porch snapping at the scraps thrown our way by the uber elite & uber exclusive enclave of folks from Dinky Mountain Town, NC.... yeah, it's possible, but... probably not
My only response to all of this is... get a grip, man. You should never (unless you're Sigourney Weaver or Barack Obama or someone actually possibly 'important' or 'famous' like that) think that you are so... solicited that you have to shield your every activity from the common hordes of unwashed humanity or whatnot. The steps are quite simple
1. answer honestly "yes, I am having a thing"
2. push back only if pushed "no, you are not invited"
simple!
hope all liked my little tale.
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